Hello Chair YC 지원서

Summer 2007Inactive

Hello Chair은(는) Summer 2007 배치에서 Consumer 회사로 Y Combinator를 거쳤습니다. 아래에는 회사의 사업 내용, 창립자, 그리고 실제 YC 양식에 맞춰 재구성한 YC 지원서가 있습니다.

YC 배치: Summer 2007
산업: ConsumerHome and Personal
상태: Inactive
출시됨: 2012

창업자

Kevin CorcoranFounder
Michael JacobsFounder

Hello Chair의 사업 내용

Hello, Chair Inc. was founded in 2006 by Luke Iannini, Mike Jacobs and Kevin Corcoran to explore opportunities in applied machine learning and internet advertising. After receiving funding from Y-Combinator in 2007, we produced Adpinion, one of the first advertising networks to utilize user feedback to drive personalized targeting. Our core technology - the recommendation engine called SparseReduce - has since proved infinitely adaptable in such diverse problem domains as Amazon product recommendation, eBay auction discovery, image and language comprehension, and Twitter stream exploration. The latest application of SparseReduce is Appsaurus, an app discovery platform which was released on the eve of 2010 to overwhelming critical acclaim. We're backed by some pretty incredible investors: Harrison Metal, Mitch Kapor, Chris Sacca, Y-Combinator and David Parker to name a few. We're also proud to have Alexis Ohanian as an advisor.

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Y Combinator 지원

Hello Chair, Summer 2007 기수. 공개 데이터를 기반으로 작성된 실제 지원 질문.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Hello Chair

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Personalized ad network using user feedback

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We built Adpinion, an advertising network that uses a recommendation engine called SparseReduce to personalize ads based on user feedback. It adapts to users' preferences to improve ad relevance and engagement. This technology later expanded into app discovery and other recommendation domains.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live in San Francisco, CA, and plan to keep the company based there after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco has the right environment and community for early-stage startups working in applied machine learning and internet advertising, which suits the focus of our product.

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Hello Chair의 실제 YC 지원서인가요?

아닙니다. Y Combinator는 제출된 지원서를 비공개로 유지합니다. 이것은 재구성된 것입니다. 실제 YC 양식 질문에 Hello Chair의 공개 데이터(출시 노트, 창업자 배경, 제품 설명)를 기반으로 답변했습니다. Hello Chair과 같은 회사가 YC에 어떻게 자신을 소개하는지 보여주며, 그들이 제출한 텍스트는 아닙니다.